-The Hindu Redistribution measures have been ineffective and there are no policies discouraging accumulation of income and wealth The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the stark divide between the rich and the poor. At this juncture, evaluating the state of inequality serves as an eye-opener on the income/wealth divides prevailing across regions. Such divides are represented in terms of the share of income/wealth among the top 10% of the population against the bottom...
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RS media panel secy quits to protest curbs on journalists’ access to House
-Newslaundry.com No meaningful purpose to serve on the committee anymore, Anant Bagaitkar wrote in a letter to the Rajya Sabha chairman. To register a protest against the curbs on media access to parliament, senior journalist Anant Bagaitkar on Tuesday resigned as the secretary of the Media Advisory Committee to the Rajya Sabha, the Press Club of India tweeted. The committee consists of representatives from media organisations accredited to the Press Gallery of the...
More »US Inflation and India’s Economic Recovery -Prabhat Patnaik
-NetworkIdeas.org The very day, December 11, when the Indian finance ministry spuriously claimed a robust recovery in the post-pandemic Indian economy, newspapers carried news of an acceleration in the US inflation rate. The inflation rate in November 2021 over November of the preceding year had been 6.8 per cent in the US, which was higher than the corresponding rate in any month over the previous 40 years; in particular, petrol prices...
More »As Uttar Pradesh Heads to Polls, How Does the Yogi Govt's Economic Performance Hold Up? -Santosh Mehrotra
-TheWire.in Employment trends are dismal under the 'double engine government' of Modi and Adityanath. Several claims made in ads do not appear to hold up. Uttar Pradesh’s per capita income was barely half (Rs 41,023) of India’s average (Rs 86,659) in 2019-20. The per capita income of UP (at 2011-12 prices) is ranked 32 out of 36 states and Union Territories. That the state’s economy has been one of the poorly performing...
More »Omicron: India eye on South Africa, North America to gauge bed needs -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph Given hospitalisation trends in the West, we may not see extreme pressures on hospitals as during second wave, say experts Indian health officials are monitoring Covid-19 hospitalisation rates in South Africa and Europe to try and predict how omicron-fuelled surges might impact the demand for critical care beds in India. The early signals appear to uncouple deaths from infection spikes. The daily new cases in South Africa, Denmark, Norway and the...
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